June 23, 2021

Agenda (DRAFT):

1. Call to order (Griffin)

   1. 1. Introduction of new Director (Jerad Pickerell) and guests (Griffin/Buffington, < 5 min)

2. Consent Agenda (Griffin/Buffington, <5 min) (recommend approve)

   1. 1. Approval of Agenda

      2. Approval of minutes from the previous meeting

      3. Membership & Connectivity Report

      4. Financial Summary Reports: February 2021, March 2021, April 2021

3. Reports (recommend accept all reports as a single action)

   1. 1. IRS 990 Filing Change (Chris Kohart, SS&C, 5 min)

      2. Executive Committee (Griffin, 5 min)

      3. Personnel Committee (Palmer, 5 min)

      4. Finance Committee (Neufeld, 5 min)

      5. Memership Committee (Warner, 5 min)

      6. NTAC Report (Fleming, 5 min)

      7. Executive Director's Report (Buffington, 30 min)

         1. 1. Health Insurance FY22

            2. Financial system change

            3. Public Relations/Marketing (Origin Story Video)

            4. FUSF Contribution Factor (Q2: 33.4%, Q3: 31.8% )

            5. Governance review

            6. State consortium award (letter to procurement from Hook Law)

            7. Fiber backbone project

               1. 1. CTC Technology & Energy -- preparing market analysis and fiber RFI (CTC Scope of Work).

                  2. Lobby efforts -- preparing for in-person interim meetings, leveraging "The Minds We Need" (paper) and https://mindsweneed.org (site).

                  3. State/State Broadband Office -- continuing to persue. KanREN removed from BB plan

                     1. 1. Letter supporting conversation to add KanREN back into Broadband Plan (CTC)

                        2. Letter to Governor Kelly on April 5 (KanREN)

                  4. Federal funding -- current environmental scan

                     1. 1. Updated US R&E map

                        2. State opportunity assessment (for The Quilt by Quadra Partners)

                  5. KanREN's current position

4. Old business

5. New business

   1. 1. Change IRS 990 Public Charity calculation per SSC report (Griffin, < 5 min)(recommend adopt change)

      2. Chair-Elect FY2022 Election: Mary Walsh nominated at March meeting (Griffin, < 5 min)(recommend elect Mary Walsh)

      3. Election of Committee Chairs FY2020 (Griffin/Kaiser, 10 min):

         1. 1. Membership, currenlty Sandra Warner, JCCC (recommend re-elect)

            2. Finance, currently Keith Neufeld, WSU (recommend re-elect)

            3. Personnel, currently Tyler Palmer, LMH Health (recommend re-elect)

      4. Board Meetings FY2022 (Kaiser/Buffington, 5 min)(recommend adopt)

         1. 1. Q1: 9/29/2021, Q2: 12/15/2021, Q3: 3/23/2022, Q4: 6/22/2022

6. Other business

7. Adjourn

Other Supporting Documents:

• Consolidated PDF of Agenda and Documents